cohere

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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verb come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
verb cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole
verb have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results

Borrowed from Latin cohaereō (“cohere, cling (closely) together, harmonise, be consistent (with), be in agreement with”).

That which coheres with the material conditions of experience (sensation), is real. — The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
It subsisted by force of arms and terror was its cohering power. — South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure, Cyrus Townsend Brady
It were easy to proceed from Maine to California instancing the remote centuries that are daily colliding within our domain, but this is enough to show how little we cohere in opinions. — Red Men and White, Owen Wister

cling, cleave, adhere, stick

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